Sec.16a-41-37. Application process

(a) For eligible applicants, the fuel assistance award letter shall include a pread-dressed weatherization card that solicits dwelling unit data.

(b) To be eligible for weatherization assistance, applicants must return the card in person or by mail within 30 days from the date on which the service provider agency or the Department of Income Maintenance mailed their award letter.

(c) The service provider agencies shall check the returned cards against their list of units completed since the beginning of SWAP/DOE coordination.

(d) The service provider agencies shall mail a denial letter to applicants if weatherization work had been previously completed on that dwelling unit.

(e) The service provider agencies shall then place the remaining eligible cards in chronological order organized by municipality.

(f) Weatherization work will be scheduled on a first come first serve basis.

(g) From this process the service provider agencies shall develop a planned caseload, which shall be served during the program year.

(h) This process shall determine seventy five percent (75%) of the dwelling units to be weatherized. The remaining twenty five percent (25%) will be determined at the discretion of the service provider agency.

(i) If there are eligible households that cannot be served during the program year, those cards will be carried forward to the following program year.

(j) If a service provider agency has exhausted their eligible weatherization caseload, they shall use their energy assistance caseload for outreach services.

(Effective August 25, 1986)